The first episode, shot at a nature preserve in Kenya, shows what this equipment is capable of. Even though we see the stars and the moon in the sky, the sky itself is as blue as it is during the day. We find out that lions, nocturnal by nature, become very social beings at night. It’s also a time when a lioness potentially might leave her cubs behind to go hunt for food. In the episode, a lioness brings down a wildebeest, giving sustenance to her entire pride. But when she comes back to her cubs, two of the three are missing.Earth at Night in Color Season 1-2 Download
The lioness, her remaining cub in tow, searches for her other cubs every night for four nights, and we see how desperate — but determined — she is despite long odds.We also see hyenas stalking the pride’s kill, and an eagle owl scooping up spiders, because under a full moon it’s too bright out for him to stalk his usual rodent and reptile prey.Other episodes of the series, where Alex Williamson is the executive producer, will follow tarisers, jaguars, bears and cheetahs. It will also have an episode that shows animals operating overnight in Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto (expect a lot of pigeons and rats).When you get down to brass tacks, the very practically-titled Earth At Night In Color operates like any other nature special we’ve seen on Netflix, the BBC, or even on Apple TV+: Animals followed in their natural habitat, with footage stitched together into a story. But the low-light capabilities of the cameras the filmmakers used made the episode we watched fascinating, for a couple of reasons.First of all, it’s not like we’re watching these animals in the dim blue-and-black vision humans have at night, or the photo-negative shots that are typically seen with night-vision cameras and lenses. We’re seeing these scenes play out as if they’re in daytime. We’re not 100 percent sure there wasn’t some post-production CGI involved with making the sky look brighter and bluer than it really was, but there’s no faking the colors we see. There came a point that we had to be reminded that this was all at night by shots of the stars in the blue skies above a scene.